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Heartbreaking—and inspiring.
Chicago Sun-Times on The Invisible Bridge
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Powerful…. So mesmerizing that in spite of the book’s heft, its ending comes too soon.
Miami Herald on The Invisible Bridge
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To bring an entire lost world—its sights, its smells, its heartaches, raptures and terrors—to vivid life between the covers of a novel is an accomplishment; to invest that world, and everyone who inhabits it, with a soul, as Julie Orringer does in The Invisible Bridge, takes something more like genius.
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer avoids bathos and has a gift for re-creating distant times and places: a Paris suffused with the scent of paprikas and the sounds of American jazz, the camraderies and cruelties of the work camps. The ticking clock of history keeps it urgent and moving forward, and the result is, against all odds, a Holocaust page-turner. Buy it.
New York magazine on The Invisible Bridge
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What begins as a jewel-box romance soon breaks open into a harrowing saga of war. Orringer, drawing upon assiduous research into Hungarian history (and her own), conveys a piercing sense of what it means to be fated by one’s blood, as well as a rich understanding ot the capricious nature of survival.
Vogue on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer’s stunning first novel far exceeds the expectations generated by her much-lauded debut collection, How to Breathe Underwater. . . . Orringer’s triumphant novel is as much a lucid reminder of a time not so far away as it is a luminous story about the redemptive power of love.
Publishers Weekly (starred review, pick of the week) on The Invisible Bridge
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A hugely ambitious undertaking, but [Orringer] has every detail under control, from the architectural currents in Europe in the 1930s to the day-to-day struggle to survive…Completely absorbing…an astonishing achievement.
Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist (starred review) on The Invisible Bridge
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Wry, poignant. . . . Such clear-eyed precision makes Orringer’s debut as heartbreaking as it is clever.
Entertainment Weekly on How to Breathe Underwater
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Profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty…. A stunning first novel.
Los Angeles Times on The Invisible Bridge
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Truly breathtaking…. A sensual feast.
San Francisco Chronicle on The Invisible Bridge
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The Invisible Bridge is a tale of war-torn lovers, family and survival of the luckiest rather than the fittest…. Wonderfully evoked.
Chicago Tribune on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer’s writing is glorious.
The Oregonian on The Invisible Bridge
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At the risk of oversimplifying things, this novel shows how Michael Chabon would write if he grew up a ballet-dancing girl instead of a comic-book-loving boy.
The Plain Dealer on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer makes us care so deeply about the people of her all-too-real fictional world. For the time it takes to read this fine novel, and for a long time afterward, it becomes our world too.
The New York Times Book Review on The Invisible Bridge
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One of the best books of the year.
Junot Diaz on The Invisible Bridge